The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-15
Tux lllIDS OF HONOR
TO QUEEN VICTORIA. NOW BUSY
ABOUT HRR JUBILEE,
Have Anything Bat SInecure POSI-
tIOrs-The French ReEalia -Buf'
falo Bill aud His Indians.
lcornEsrospEsoE OF rHn IrrEAL.I

Press Club annual dinner, which |
was held at the Freemason' tavern,
where so many good dinners have
been eaten and are eaten every day. |
The reason being that the dining |
room of the club in Fleet street !
would not accommodate so many
members. Over 200 members and
guests sat down, and the proceedings
were OF the most solemn and deco
rous nature. 1t was very different
from an assemblage of American
newspaper men. There was a great
deal Of heavy responsibility" about
it. As the great dailies do not print
Sunday editions, and Parliament
does not sit Saturday nights, every
body had a chance to be there, and
there he was, in q white necktie and
swallow tail coat. The guests in-
cluded a large number OF members
of Parliament. and Lord WolseIey,
Viscount Cross, the Lord OF Bur
leigh aud many other peers. Speeches
were limited to five minutes, and
good long list of toasts was got
through at reasonable hour. Lord
Wolseley responded forthe army and
navy, and advised the boys" when
they wanted to change their profess
sious not to adopt the army, as how
ever disagreeabie their duties might
be, they were not to be compared
with the unpleasantness of army
life. Pearse and Williams, the rival
war correspondents, were both on
hand, and being separated by some
distance of table, ard carefully
coached, each managed to make a
speech without pitching into the
other.
THE QUEEN
has returned from the continent and
"Jubileemanii" is gaining ground.
The papers are full of notes on the
preparations. Among the noble
guests will be Prince Rudolph, OF
Austria, the Crown Princess Stepha-
ME, the King of the Belgians, and
the Queen of the Sandwich Islands.
The Jubilee service at Westminster
Abbey will cost the monstrous sum
of 800, 900, All the ladies are COM
handed to appear in full evening
dress, in order to crafty the Queens
passion for bear necks, and some OF
the religious journals are denouncing
this regulation as a sacrilege. The
Queens regalia are to be furnished
up on this jubilee occasion. A sug-
custom has even been made (though
1t will not certainly be acted on), to
insert the Koh-i-aoor in the crown.
A new crown was made for George
Nv, at enormous cost; but this, which
weighed seven pounds, was too heavy
and too large for the Queens head,
SO another was made Of less than half
the weight cap Of blue velvet,
with hoops of silver, brilliant with
diamonds, pearls, rubies, sapphires
and emeralds. Above it rose ball
covered with small diamonds, sur
mounted by Maltese cross of bril-
liauts, with a splendid sapphire in
the center. In front of the crown was
another Maltese Cross, bearing the
enormous hearty shaped ruby once
worn by Edward the Black Prince
There are 2l66 precious stones OF all
sizes on the crown, worth ell3,000.
And this reminds me that the history
of the
FRENCH CROWN JEWELS,
which are about to come under the
hammer, is bound up with the his
tory OF France. They were the com
panions of her good fortune and her
adversely; they assisted in all her
triumphs, sparkling in all their
brilliancy on the person of their SOW
ereign, and the next day sent to some
foreign country as hostage for the
ransom of some town, to guarantee a
loan contracted in the interest of
the State, or for the payment of a
war indemnity. Stolen in 1892, the
greater part of them were recovered
miraculously, and some also disap-
peared in the revolution of 1913, The
war of 1870 exposed them to fresh
danger, aud they found a refuge at
Brest against the assaults of the
enemy. 1t has been said that they
were deposited on board a ship in
the roads, and only just escaped be-
ing sent to the West Indies, as the
vessel was ordered to that destina-
ton. Their Odyssey was, however,
more simple. They were not ex-
posed to the perils of the sea. Nest
ling in their morocco leather cases
they were packed in common
wooden box made of planks nailed
together, and taken to the arsenal of
Brest. The box was put in a corner
as if it contained nothing of value,
and a pile of old iron, chain cables,
etc., was heaped above it. The only
person who knew the value OF the
contents of the case watched over it
discreetly and with vigilance. The
danger being at an end the box was
brought back to Paris simply corded,
which gave it the sordid appearance
OF case OF ordinary merchandise,
THE AMERICAN EXHIBITION
will not only open on the 9th of
N May, but will be in very advanced
. ,ate of completion. All the exhib
t@'rs exclaim at the magnitude aud
Beauty of the buildings and grounds
to which no description can do full
rAstice. Col. Henry S. Russell, of
Boston, who has accepted the presi-
dency of the exhibition, and Mr..
Burnett Landreth, of Philadelphia,
have arrived, and, highly gratifed
with the state OF affairs, have put
their shoulders to the wheel and are
doing their best to aid in the prep
arations. Mr.. John Robinson Whit
ley, director general, wears the as
pect of general in command of an
army doing forced march in the
enemy's country. But short time
will enable every one connected with
the work to congratulate themselves
on the completion Of one of,the m lost
gigantic enterprises ever undertaken
by private persons.
BUFFALO BILL
10 M tpu n 0raot aoo;ol s,......, 49,